Kate Riordan
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English
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"In 1933, naïve twenty-two year-old Alice, pregnant and unmarried, is in disgrace. She is banished from London to secluded Fiercombe Manor and the watchful eye of her mother's old friend, housekeeper Mrs. Jelphs. The manor's owners, the Stantons, live abroad. Alice is to have her baby there, give it up for adoption, and return home, But while awaiting the baby's birth, Alice senses that something is amiss with Fiercombe and its absentee owners."...
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English
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Sylvie Durand receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in the South of France. In the middle of a sweltering 1990's summer marked by unusual fires across the countryside, she returns to La Reverie with her youngest daughter Emma in tow, ignoring the deep sense of dread she feels for this place she has long tried to forget. In every corner of the house, Sylvie can't escape the specter of her first child. Elodie, born amid the...
3) Sanditon
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Based on the manuscript Jane Austen wrote in the months before her death, "Sanditon" tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited, and unconventional Charlotte Heywood and her spiky relationship with the humorous, charming (and slightly wild) Sidney Parker. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to the would-be resort of Sanditon, she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of romance, betrayal, and changing...
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Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Harriet Jenner is just twenty-one when she walks through the gates of Fenix House. Reeling from a personal tragedy, she doesn't expect her new life as a governess to be easy. But she certainly doesn't foresee the spell Fenix House will cast. Almost fifty years later, Harriet's granddaughter Grace follows in her footsteps. For Grace, raised on Harriet's mesmerizing stories, Fenix House is a fairy tale; a magical place suspended in time. Now its grandeur...
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English
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Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences of this process?
In this book, Kate O'Riordan answers these crucial question. She discovers that many objects, such as genomes and genomic projects,...
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Daniel has been spending a lot of time with his crush, Charlotte, who has just learned she is pregnant. Daniel helps Charlotte with her pregnancy struggles and finds himself on a memorable nine-month journey with three independent, outspoken women. Through the tears, laughter, and love, this dysfunctional family finds a way to stick it out together. Includes trailer gallery.
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English
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As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic?
In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of...